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Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region

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Re: Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region

#11

Post by hoodoof »

I really wish there was an API that allowed me to just get a list of all available regions including their descriptive names.

As it stands, when AWS adds a region I have to make manual updates to update my systems.

AWS has APIs for everything else, why not a comprehensive API for regions and their descriptive names?

EDIT: for the downvoters - please specify exactly the REST API call that I make to get regions and their abbreviated and descriptive names. I'd be happy even to see the API in the JavaScript SDK. It doesn't exist.

Re: Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region

#12

Post by Rezo »

Interesting tidbit in the announcement: Data between the US-East-1 and US-East-2 regions is priced at the lower inter-AZ rate ($0.01 per GB, or half price). That's pretty great if you're looking to add a layer of regional redundancy.

Re: Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region

#13

Post by reustle »

niftich wrote: post #7
hayleox wrote: post #5

Anyone know what part of the state the datacenters are located in? Or are they just all over the place? EDIT: Apparently the facilities are in a couple townships around Columbus (which is in the dead center of the state). Neat. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2015/05/29/...

For map nerds! 40.103706, -83.199873 in Dublin 40.061121, -83.134998 (originally rumored to be at a different, nearby site at 40.053217, -83.127493) in Hilliard 40.094640, -82.751469 in New Albany

Clickable

- https://www.google.com/maps/search/40.103706,%20-83.199873

- https://www.google.com/maps/search/40.061121,%20-83.134998

- https://www.google.com/maps/search/40.094640,%20-82.751469

All 3 points: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/40.103706,+-83.199873/40.061...

Re: Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region

#14

Post by inopinatus »

jsingleton wrote: post #6

I wondered how soon "Coming soon" would be. Now I have to update my recent blog post [0] before the final two parts are even out :) - part two is out tomorrow BTW. There seems to be a bit of an arms race with Azure right now. The current map [1] has four more regions "Coming soon". Looking forward to London. [0]: https://unop.uk/on-aws-vs-azure-vendor-lock-in-and-pricing-c... [1]: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/glo…

London might be RSN, the EC2 API endpoint for what I'm guessing is London (eu-west-2) is resolvable, reachable and happily 401'ing requests as of a few days ago.

Obligatory jest: they'll have to rename it post-Brexit.

Re: Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region

#15

Post by femto113 »

reustle wrote: post #13
niftich wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For map nerds! 40.103706, -83.199873 in Dublin 40.061121, -83.134998 (originally rumored to be at a different, nearby site at 40.053217, -83.127493) in Hilliard 40.094640, -82.751469 in New Albany

Clickable - https://www.google.com/maps/search/40.103706,%20-83.199873 - https://www.google.com/maps/search/40.061121,%20-83.134998 - https://www.google.com/maps/search/40.094640,%20-82.751469 All 3 points: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/40.103706,+-83.199873/40.061...

Zooming in with satellite view shows that all three sites seem to not only have identically sized/shaped buildings, but they're also oriented the same way (long axis running east/west). Any theories on why? Something to do with cooling perhaps?

Re: Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region

#16

Post by inopinatus »

hoodoof wrote: post #11

I really wish there was an API that allowed me to just get a list of all available regions including their descriptive names. As it stands, when AWS adds a region I have to make manual updates to update my systems. AWS has APIs for everything else, why not a comprehensive API for regions and their descriptive names? EDIT: for the downvoters - please specify exactly the REST API call that I make to get regions and the…

It's in the SDKs. e.g. https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-ruby/blob/master/aws-sdk-core...

Icky and totally unsupported alternative: scrape the console. Look for meta name="awsc-mezz-data" in the response.

Re: Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region

#17

Post by QUFB »

hoodoof wrote: post #11

I really wish there was an API that allowed me to just get a list of all available regions including their descriptive names. As it stands, when AWS adds a region I have to make manual updates to update my systems. AWS has APIs for everything else, why not a comprehensive API for regions and their descriptive names? EDIT: for the downvoters - please specify exactly the REST API call that I make to get regions and the…

Seems to be one:

  $ aws ec2 describe-regions
  REGIONS	ec2.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com	ap-south-1
  REGIONS	ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com	eu-west-1
  REGIONS	ec2.ap-northeast-2.amazonaws.com ap-northeast-2
  REGIONS	ec2.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com	ap-northeast-1
  REGIONS	ec2.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com	sa-east-1
  REGIONS	ec2.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com	ap-southeast-1
  REGIONS	ec2.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com	ap-southeast-2
  REGIONS	ec2.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com	eu-central-1
  REGIONS	ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com	us-east-1
  REGIONS	ec2.us-east-2.amazonaws.com	us-east-2
  REGIONS	ec2.us-west-1.amazonaws.com	us-west-1
  REGIONS	ec2.us-west-2.amazonaws.com	us-west-2

Re: Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region

#18

Post by hoodoof »

inopinatus wrote: post #16
hoodoof wrote: post #11

I really wish there was an API that allowed me to just get a list of all available regions including their descriptive names. As it stands, when AWS adds a region I have to make manual updates to update my systems. AWS has APIs for everything else, why not a comprehensive API for regions and their descriptive names? EDIT: for the downvoters - please specify exactly the REST API call that I make to get regions and the…

It's in the SDKs. e.g. https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-ruby/blob/master/aws-sdk-core... Icky and totally unsupported alternative: scrape the console. Look for meta name="awsc-mezz-data" in the response.

Maybe in the Ruby SDK, not in the JavaScript SDK.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/EC2.h...

And anyway, this is not something that should be in the SDK, it's a core part of the AWS system and thus the data should come from a core API not an SDK which requires updating.

Re: Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region

#19

Post by inopinatus »

QUFB wrote: post #17
hoodoof wrote: post #11

I really wish there was an API that allowed me to just get a list of all available regions including their descriptive names. As it stands, when AWS adds a region I have to make manual updates to update my systems. AWS has APIs for everything else, why not a comprehensive API for regions and their descriptive names? EDIT: for the downvoters - please specify exactly the REST API call that I make to get regions and the…

Seems to be one: $ aws ec2 describe-regions REGIONS ec2.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com ap-south-1 REGIONS ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com eu-west-1 REGIONS ec2.ap-northeast-2.amazonaws.com ap-northeast-2 REGIONS ec2.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com ap-northeast-1 REGIONS ec2.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com sa-east-1 REGIONS ec2.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com ap-southeast-1 REGIONS ec2.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com ap-southeast-2 REGIONS ec2.…

I think the OP wants the mapping of "us-east-1": "US East (N. Virginia)" &c.

Re: Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region

#20

Post by hosh »

niftich wrote: post #7
hayleox wrote: post #5

Anyone know what part of the state the datacenters are located in? Or are they just all over the place? EDIT: Apparently the facilities are in a couple townships around Columbus (which is in the dead center of the state). Neat. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2015/05/29/...

For map nerds! 40.103706, -83.199873 in Dublin 40.061121, -83.134998 (originally rumored to be at a different, nearby site at 40.053217, -83.127493) in Hilliard 40.094640, -82.751469 in New Albany

Yep, suburbs and surrounding cities of my hometown, Columbus, OH. I've been hearing rumors of this here and there for a year now. Glad to see it happening.
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